The daily Le Monde is threatened with insolvency lest it come up with 100 million euros in capital. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has now spoken out against a takeover of the paper by three managers, presumably because two of them are close to his political adversaries. The news portal Rue89 condemns Sarkozy’s behaviour: “It’s scandalous, [...]
Since Tuesday night the US company Google has been redirecting Chinese visitors to its servers in Hong Kong to avoid censorship from the People’s Republic. Commentators see the move as the reasonable course of action, enhancing both the company’s image and freedom of opinion. Google cleans up its image Google’s decision to redirect Chinese Google [...]
For its social network Buzz, the Internet giant Google accessed the electronic contact books of customers of its email service Gmail and linked the contacts as friends without informing them. But some things really ought to remain secret, writes the daily The Independent: “It hadn’t occurred to [Google] that some people might not want all [...]
The Russian bear’s hide is not so thin, writes Leonidas Donskis in his blog on news portal Delfi (Lithuania). He considers it a mistake to handle Moscow with kid gloves out of fear of insulting it: “Allow me to ask by whom, when and how Russia is supposed to have been humiliated? By the freedom [...]
Mely Kiyak writes in the left-liberal daily Berliner Zeitung an ironic letter to Apple boss Steve Jobs on the launch of Apple’s iPad tablet computer: “Dear Steve Jobs, I’ve had a look at your video press conference and seen how you present this device with its touch-me function dressed in your old duds. … My [...]
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